Maps of and text on feudal castles in the current Kansai, Chubu, Kanto, and Chugoku regions in central Japan, representing about a third of Yamagata's complete compendium of feudal castles in eastern, central, and western Honshu.
Language:
Japanese
Provenance:
Sold by F. A. Bernett Books (Boston, Mass.), 2011.
manuscripts (documents); maps (documents); pen and wash drawings; Manuscripts, Japanese
Physical Description:
65 leaves : paper; bound to 273 x 193 mm
Geographic Subject:
Japan; Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Ms. codex.; Confucian scholar who started working for the Bakufu bureaucracy in ca. 1755, was known for his critique of the Tokugawa political system, and was executed for involvement in an anti-government plot.; Title from pastedown on upper cover.; Collation: Paper, 65 double sheet folios.; Layout: Text pages written in up to 11 columns.; Decoration: 54 castle plans in colored inks and wash, showing details such as buildings, grounds, walls, and gates; circles, triangles, and some characters in red ink in text.; Binding: Fukuro-toji (stitched), with simple geometric stamp used repeatedly on the paper covers and a pastedown of gold with characters in black ink on the upper cover.; Origin: Written in Japan in the second half of the 18th century.; Japanese.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1592
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